Edouard Taufenbach earned a Master’s degree in Arts and Digital Media, Bastien
Pourtout gradueted with a Master’s degree in Economic and Social History from
Paris X and a Master’s in Photography and Contemporary Art from Paris VIII. They
have been working together since Spéculaire (2018–2019), a project created
around Sébastien Lifshitz’s collection of vernacular photographs. The resulting
collages were shown at Paris Photo, then exhibited internationally in Rome,
London, Mexico City, New York, Athens, and at the Villa Noailles. The project was
accompanied by a monograph published by Éditions L’Artière. They later
developed La Méthode (2020), inspired by Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square.
In 2020, they won the Swiss Life Prize as a duo for Le Bleu du Ciel, a work dedicated
to the flight of swallows. A residency at the Villa Medici allowed them to develop
the project, after which they formally established themselves as an artistic duo. The
series was exhibited at La Piscine Museum in Roubaix, at Approche, in several
galleries, and at the Rencontres d’Arles. A second publication was released with
Filigranes.
In 2022, they curated an exhibition with gallerist and collector Pierre Passebon
around his collection of Marlene Dietrich photographs, including two works
presented at the Cinémathèque Française for Cinemode par Jean-Paul Gaultier,
curated by Matthieu Orléan. They were also laureates of the IMANÉO research
program (CNRS–INHA), through which they developed a digital artwork on the
Central Market of Tunis.
Pourtout and Taufenbach define their duo practice as a method built on protocols
and games. Working with various cameras digital reflex, smartphone, or Rolleifle
they create images to be arranged, exchanged, and combined like visual
messages between them. Since their 2020 residency at the Villa Medici, the
representation of space has been central to their approach. Their work explores
structures, systems of organization, and the principles that shape the identity of a
place. Through drawing, photography, and assemblage, they continually invent
new tools and protocols to explore and reinterpret space.
Pourtout gradueted with a Master’s degree in Economic and Social History from
Paris X and a Master’s in Photography and Contemporary Art from Paris VIII. They
have been working together since Spéculaire (2018–2019), a project created
around Sébastien Lifshitz’s collection of vernacular photographs. The resulting
collages were shown at Paris Photo, then exhibited internationally in Rome,
London, Mexico City, New York, Athens, and at the Villa Noailles. The project was
accompanied by a monograph published by Éditions L’Artière. They later
developed La Méthode (2020), inspired by Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square.
In 2020, they won the Swiss Life Prize as a duo for Le Bleu du Ciel, a work dedicated
to the flight of swallows. A residency at the Villa Medici allowed them to develop
the project, after which they formally established themselves as an artistic duo. The
series was exhibited at La Piscine Museum in Roubaix, at Approche, in several
galleries, and at the Rencontres d’Arles. A second publication was released with
Filigranes.
In 2022, they curated an exhibition with gallerist and collector Pierre Passebon
around his collection of Marlene Dietrich photographs, including two works
presented at the Cinémathèque Française for Cinemode par Jean-Paul Gaultier,
curated by Matthieu Orléan. They were also laureates of the IMANÉO research
program (CNRS–INHA), through which they developed a digital artwork on the
Central Market of Tunis.
Pourtout and Taufenbach define their duo practice as a method built on protocols
and games. Working with various cameras digital reflex, smartphone, or Rolleifle
they create images to be arranged, exchanged, and combined like visual
messages between them. Since their 2020 residency at the Villa Medici, the
representation of space has been central to their approach. Their work explores
structures, systems of organization, and the principles that shape the identity of a
place. Through drawing, photography, and assemblage, they continually invent
new tools and protocols to explore and reinterpret space.
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